Re: getting ready for announcement

[Bart Decrem <bart eazel com>]

Hi Maciej,

Good point.  I think we're using the Charter right now as a place where we're
putting all the things we care about.  Then, when we start having draft legal
documents, we'll move the items into different documents depending, among others, on
how easily we want to be able to change them.  I suspect we'll end up with 3
documents:
- Articles of incorporation
- Bylaws
- Charter.

So stuff that's currently in the charter will get spread out over those 3 documents.

Bart

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> Andy Tai <atai@ece.ucsd.edu> writes:
>
> > Hi, as a GNOME user, I think the following statements should appear in
> > the charter, as is or in some other form, but clearly stated:
> >
> > 1. GNOME is part of the GNU Project.
> > 2. GNOME aims to create a free desktop, the user interface component of a free
> > operating system (or the GNU system). ("Free" as defined by the FSF or
> > the Debian Free Software Guidelines)  (not meaning for free system only)
> > 3. GNOME supports the goals of the GNU Project, as defined by the FSF (borrowed
> > from the gcc mission statement)
> >
> >
> > These are what GNOME is all about, and should be clearly mentioned in its
> > charter. I believe the GNOME leadership (Miguel) supports the above in the
> > charter.
> >
> > Companies do not have to fully agree with the above, but their activities in
> > the GNOME Foundation  should not conflict with the above.  Gcc is a great
> > GNU project with wide industry involvement, while remaining GNU, and GNOME
> > can do the same.
> >
> > Just my very small fraction of a cent
> >
>
> IMO, these things should be adopted as part of the bylaws, not part of
> the charter, so we can ammend them in case <paranoia mode="on">the
> goals of the GNU project ever change</paranoia>. Of course this
> situation is extremely unlikely, but we should put as little as
> possible into the articles of incorporation themselves, IMO.
>
>  - Maciej